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American Political Economy

The Jackie (and Jill) Robinson Effect: Why Do Congresswomen Outperform Congressmen? , Sarah Anzia and Christopher R. Berry , September 2009

Ideologues or Pragmatists? , Ethan Bueno de Mesquita and Amanda Friedenberg , September 2009

The President and the Distribution of Federal Spending , Christopher R. Berry, Barry C. Burden, and William G. Howell , February 2009

Piling On: Overlapping Jurisdictions & the Fiscal Common-Pool , Christopher R. Berry , June 2008

A Bridge to Somewhere: Mapping State and Congressional Ideology on a Cross-Institutional Common Space , Boris Shor, Christopher R. Berry, and Nolan McCarty , May 2008

QRE, NSNX and the Paradox of Voting , Howard Margolis , December 2007

The Fiscal Consequences of Electoral Institutions , Christopher R. Berry and Jacob E. Gersen , May 2007

Accountability and Local Elections: Rethinking Retrospective Voting , Christopher R. Berry and William G. Howell , January 2007

Matters of Life and Death: The Durability of Discretionary Programs 1970–2004 , Christopher R. Berry, Berry C. Burden, and William G. Howell , January 2007

School Consolidation and Inequality , Christopher R. Berry , January 2007

Growing Pains: The School Consolidation Movement and Student Outcomes , Christopher R. Berry and Martin West , January 2007

Social Capital and Contributions in a Public Goods Experiment , Lisa Anderson, Jennifer Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo , December 2004

Do Liberals Play Nice? The Effects of Party and Political Ideology in Public Goods and Trust Games , Lisa Anderson, Jennifer Mellor, and Jeffrey Milyo , June 2004

A Simple Solution for a Group Choosing a Restaurant , Tim Groseclose and Jeffrey Milyo , May 2004

State Campaign Finance Laws and the Turnout Decision , David Primo and Jeffrey Milyo , March 2004

Campaign Finance and Political Efficacy: Evidence from the States , David M. Primo and Jeffrey D. Milyo , November 2003

Generalized Modeling Approaches to Risk Adjustment of Skewed Outcomes Data , Willard G. Manning, Anirban Basu, and John Mullahy , September 2003

Income Inequality, Social Capital and Mortality: Re-examining the State-Level Data , Jeffrey Milyo and Ira Parnerkar , August 2003

Inequality, Group Cohesion, and Public Good Provision: An Experimental Analysis , Lisa R. Anderson, Jennifer M. Mellor, Jeffrey Milyo , March 2003

Multiple Principals and Outside Information in Bureaucratic Policy Making , Sean Gailmard , December 2002

Expertise, Subversion, and Bureaucratic Discretion , Sean Gailmard , December 2001

Subject Areas



	American Political Economy Children and Families Comparative Government Cultural Policy Economics Education Environment Government and Public Management Health Policy Immigration International Political Economy Judgment and Decision-Making Labor and Employment Methods Poverty and Inequality Public Finance and Regulation Social Policy

Children and Families

Five Decades of Consumption and Income Poverty , Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan , August 2009

The Effect of Computer Use on Child Outcomes , Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches , May 2008

Is Parental Love Colorblind? Allocation of Resources within Mixed Families , Marcos A. Rangel , June 2007

Design Priorities and Disciplinary Perspectives: The Case of the US National Children's Study , Robert T. Michael and Colm O'Muircheartaigh , November 2006

Evidence of the Effectiveness of Child Support and Visitation: Examining Food Insecurity among Children with Nonresident Fathers , Steven Garasky and Susan D. Stewart , February 2006

Three Decades of Consumption and Income Poverty , Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan , January 2006

Children's Reading and Math Skills: The Family's Two Constraints , Robert T. Michael , August 2005

Alimony Rights and Intrahousehold Allocation of Resources: Evidence from Brazil , Marcos Rangel , January 2005

The Material Well-Being of Single Mother Households in the 1980's and 1990's: What Can We Learn From Food Spending? , Thomas DeLeire and Helen Levy , September 2004

Has the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status Changed? , Susan E. Mayer and Leonard M. Lopoo , September 2004

Like Mother, Like Daugher? SES and the Intergenerational Correlation of Traits, Behaviors and Attitudes , Susan E. Mayer, Greg Duncan, and Ariel Kalil , September 2004

Early Marriage and HIV Risks in Sub-Saharan Africa , Shelley Clark , March 2004

An Economic Perspective on Sex, Marriage, and the Family in Contemporary United States , Robert T. Michael , February 2004

Ineligible Parents, Eligible Children: Food Stamps Receipt, Allotments and Food Insecurity among Children of Immigrants , Jennifer Van Hook and Kelly Stamper Balistreri , February 2004

Family Influences on Children's Verbal Ability , Robert T. Michael , March 2003

Ready to Enter: What Research Tells Policymakers About Strategies to Promote Social and Emotional School Readiness Among Three- and Four-Year-Olds , C. Cybele Raver and Jane Knitzer , July 2002

Emotions Matter: Making the Case for the Role of Young Children's Emotional Development for Early School Readiness , C. Cybele Raver , July 2002

How Do Cohabiting Couples With Children Spend Their Money? , Thomas DeLeire and Ariel Kalil , April 2002

Living Arrangements of Single-Mother Families: Variations, Transitions, and Child Development Outcomes , Ariel Kalil, Thomas DeLeire, Rukmalie Jayakody, Meejung Chin , September 2001

Gender, Occupation Choice and the Risk of Death at Work , Thomas DeLeire and Helen Levy , September 2001

How Economic Segregation Affects Children's Educational Attainment , Susan E. Mayer , July 2001

Children's Cognitive Skill Development in Britain and the United States , Robert T. Michael , July 2001

Has the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status Changed? , Susan E. Mayer and Leonard M. Lopoo , June 2001

Good Things Come in 3’s: Single-Parent Multigenerational Family Structure and Adolescent Adjustment , Thomas DeLeire and Ariel Kalil , March 2001

Measuring Poverty in the NLSY97 , Carolyn J. Hill and Robert T. Michael , November 2000

African American Adolescent Girls in Impoverished Communities: Quality of Parenting and Adolescent Outcomes , Laura D. Pittman and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale , August 1999

Abortion Decisions in the U.S. , Robert T. Michael , July 1999

How Developmental Psychologists Think About Family Process and Child Development in Low Income Families , P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale , March 1999

Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenthood: Recent Evidence and Future Directions , Rebekah Levine Coley and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale , October 1997

The Costs and Consequences of Early Fatherhood: The Impact on Young Men, Young Women and Their Children , Michael J. Brien and Robert J. Willis , April 1995

The Costs and Consequences of Teenage Childbearing for Mothers , V. Joseph Hotz, Susan Williams McElroy, and Seth G. Sanders , March 1995

Regulating Child Care: The Effects of State Regulations on Child Care Demand and Its Cost , Joseph Hotz and M. Rebecca Kilbourn , October 1994

The Demand for Child Care and Child Care Costs: Should We Ignore Families with Non-Working Mothers , V. Joseph Hotz and M. Rebecca Kilburn , January 1992

Comparative Government

Stronger Bridges: Putting Congress and State Legislatures in Common Ideological Space , Boris Shor , September 2008

A Bridge to Somewhere: Mapping State and Congressional Ideology on a Cross-Institutional Common Space , Boris Shor, Christopher R. Berry, and Nolan McCarty , May 2008

Power Politics and the Institutionalization of International Relations , Lloyd Gruber , December 2003

Class Struggle: Some Diluting Effects of Inter-Generational Mobility , Raaj Sah and Philippe Penelle , January 2003

Bureaucratic Delegation in Comparative Perspective: Constitutional Structure and Reform Timing , Delia M. Boylan , February 2000

Bureaucratic Reform in Developing Countries: A Comparison of Presidential and Parliamentary Rule , Delia M. Boylan , September 1999

Cultural Policy

A Simple Solution for a Group Choosing a Restaurant , Tim Groseclose and Jeffrey Milyo , May 2004

Sub-National Cultural Policy Where the Action is? , J. Mark Schuster , February 2003

Making a List and Checking it Twice: The List as a Tool of Historic Preservation , J. Mark Schuster , February 2003

Contingent Valuation Studies in the Arts and Culture: An Annotated Bibliography , Douglas Noonan , February 2003

Economics

Disability, Earnings, Income and Consumption , Bruce D. Meyer and Wallace K. C. Mok , December 2008

Are Judges Sensitive to Economic Conditions? Evidence from UK Employment Tribunals , Ioana Marinescu , January 2008

Job Security Legislation and Job Duration: Evidence From the UK , Ioana Marinescu , January 2008

Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Unemployment Insurance from New York State , Bruce D. Meyer and Wallace K. C. Mok , January 2007

Cognition and Extended Rational Choice , Howard Margolis , September 2006

Corruption Across Countries and Regions: Some Consequences of Local Osmosis , Raaj Sah , March 2006

Some Patterns of Market Shares of Brands Within and Across Product Categories , Rajeev Kohli and Raaj Sah , December 2005

Cognitive Anomalies and Experimental Economics , Howard Margolis , March 2005

Alimony Rights and Intrahousehold Allocation of Resources: Evidence from Brazil , Marcos Rangel , January 2005

Bordeaux Wine Vintage Quality and Weather , Orley Ashenfelter, David Ashmore, and Robert LaLonde , July 2004

An Economic Perspective on Sex, Marriage, and the Family in Contemporary United States , Robert T. Michael , February 2004

Market Shares: Some Power Law Results and Observations , Raaj Sah and Rajeev Kohli , January 2004

State Social Capital and Individual Health Status , Jennifer M. Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo , September 2003

Family Influences on Children's Verbal Ability , Robert T. Michael , March 2003

Inequality, Group Cohesion, and Public Good Provision: An Experimental Analysis , Lisa R. Anderson, Jennifer M. Mellor, Jeffrey Milyo , March 2003

Class Struggle: Some Diluting Effects of Inter-Generational Mobility , Raaj Sah and Philippe Penelle , January 2003

An Experimental Comparison of Collective Choice Procedures for Excludable Public Goods , Sean Gailmard and Thomas R. Palfrey , December 2002

Altruism and Darwinian Rationality , Howard Margolis , November 2002

How Do Cohabiting Couples With Children Spend Their Money? , Thomas DeLeire and Ariel Kalil , April 2002

Can Government Collect Resources Without Hurting Investors: Taxation of Returns From Assets , Raaj Sah and Kenji Wada , November 2001

Gender, Occupation Choice and the Risk of Death at Work , Thomas DeLeire and Helen Levy , September 2001

Has the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status Changed? , Susan E. Mayer and Leonard M. Lopoo , June 2001

How the Growth in Income Inequality Increased Economic Segregation , Susan E. Mayer , June 2001

Wealth-Loss to Investors from the Taxation of Investment Returns , Raaj Sah , May 2001

Social Capital and the Uncertainty Reduction of Self-Employment , Boris F. Blumberg and Gerard A. Pfann , April 2001

Explaining Why So Many Households Do Not Save , Annamaria Lusardi , August 2000

The Wage and Employment Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act , Thomas DeLeire , July 2000

Changes in Wage Discrimination Against People With Disabilities: 1984-1993 , Thomas DeLeire , July 2000

An Examination of the Effects of Impact Fees on Chicago's Suburbs , Brett M. Baden and Don L. Coursey , November 1999

Some Results for the Comparative Statics of Steady-States of Higher-Order Discrete Dynamic Systems , Raaj Sah , September 1999

Can Small Fluctuations in Investors' Subjective Preferences Induce Large Volatility in Equity Prices? , Rajnish Mehra and Raaj Sah , September 1999

Employment and Training and the Urban Workforce , Patricia Carter, John Dilts, and Janel Highfill , February 1994

Business Fixed Investment Spending: A Critical Survey of Modeling Strategies, Empirical Results, and Policy Implications , Robert S. Chirinko , June 1992

Aggregate Shocks, Loan Losses, and Portfolio Concentrations: Lessons for Assessing Depository Institution Risk , Robert S. Chirinko and Gene D. Gill , May 1992

Procyclical Productivity and Macroeconomic Policy: A Structural Economic Approach , Robert S. Chirinko , May 1992

Bubbles, Fundamentals, and Investment: A New Multiple Equation Specification Testing Strategy , Robert S. Chirinko and Huntley Schaller , May 1992

Economic Fluctuations, Market Power, and Returns to Scale: Evidence from Micro Data , Robert S. Chirinko and Steven M. Fazzari , May 1992

Education

The Impact of Legalized Abortion on High School Graduation Through Selection and Composition , Stephan Whitaker , December 2008

General Education vs. Vocational Training: Evidence from an Economy in Transition , Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches , May 2008

School Tracking and Access to Higher Education Among Disadvantaged Groups , Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches , May 2008

Do School Lunches Contribute to Childhood Obesity? , Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach , April 2008

The Impact of College Graduation on Geographic Mobility: Identifying Education Using Multiple Components of Vietnam Draft Risk , Ofer Malamud and Abigail Wozniak , March 2008

Breadth vs. Depth: The Timing of Specialization in Higher Education , Ofer Malamud , October 2007

Discovering One's Talent: Learning from Academic Specialization , Ofer Malamud , October 2007

School Consolidation and Inequality , Christopher R. Berry , January 2007

Growing Pains: The School Consolidation Movement and Student Outcomes , Christopher R. Berry and Martin West , January 2007

School Finance Judgments and Spending on Education: A Review of the Evidence , Christopher R. Berry , January 2007

What Have Researchers Learned from Project STAR? , Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach , August 2006

Vocational Training versus General Education: Evidence from an Educational Reform in Romania , Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches , November 2005

Breadth vs. Depth : The Effect of Academic Specialization on Labor Market Outcomes , Ofer Malamud , November 2005

Children's Reading and Math Skills: The Family's Two Constraints , Robert T. Michael , August 2005

Should We Teach Old Dogs New Tricks? The Impact of Community College Retraining on Older Displaced Workers , Robert LaLonde , July 2004

Should We Teach Old Dogs New Tricks? The Impact of Community College Retraining on Older Displaced Workers , Robert LaLonde , July 2004

Environmental Values, Ethics and Support for Environmental Policy: A Heuristic, and Psychometric Instruments to Measure their Prevalence and Relationships , Ronald B. Meyers , March 2004

Family Influences on Children's Verbal Ability , Robert T. Michael , March 2003

Emotions Matter: Making the Case for the Role of Young Children's Emotional Development for Early School Readiness , C. Cybele Raver , July 2002

How Economic Segregation Affects Children's Educational Attainment , Susan E. Mayer , July 2001

Children's Cognitive Skill Development in Britain and the United States , Robert T. Michael , July 2001

Good Things Come in 3’s: Single-Parent Multigenerational Family Structure and Adolescent Adjustment , Thomas DeLeire and Ariel Kalil , March 2001

Trade Capital, Human Capital And Economic Development , John T. Durkin, Jr. , February 2001

Measuring Social Capital and its Economic Impact , John T. Durkin, Jr. , February 2001

The Returns to Community College Schooling for Displaced Workers , Louis S. Jacobson, Robert J. LaLonde, and Daniel G. Sullivan , February 2001

Income Inequality, Economic Segregation and Children's Educational Attainment , Susan E. Mayer , November 2000

An Economic Model of Locus of Control and the Human Capital Investment Decision , Thomas DeLeire and Margo Coleman , September 2000

How Did the Increase in Economic Inequality between 1970 and 1990 Affect American Children's Educational Attainment? , Susan E. Mayer , February 2000

Integrated Governance as a Reform Strategy in the Chicago Public Schools: A Report on System-Wide School Governance Reform , Kenneth K. Wong, Robert Dreeben, Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., Gail L. Sunderman , February 1997

Governing Public Schools: The Role of Formal Authority In School Improvement , Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. and Teresa R. Kowalczyk , June 1995

Employment and Training and the Urban Workforce , Patricia Carter, John Dilts, and Janel Highfill , February 1994

U.S. Education and Training Policy: A Re-evaluation of the Underlying Assumptions Behind the "New Consensus A Re-evaluation of the Underlying Assumptions Behind the "New Consensus" , James J. Heckman, Rebecca L. Roselius, and Jeffrey A. Smith , December 1993

Environment

Using Loopholes to Reveal the Marginal Cost of Regulation: The Case of Fuel-Economy Standards , Soren T. Anderson and James M. Sallee , January 2009

The Incidence of Tax Credits for Hybrid Vehicles , James M. Sallee , December 2008

Environmental Values, Ethics and Support for Environmental Policy: A Heuristic, and Psychometric Instruments to Measure their Prevalence and Relationships , Ronald B. Meyers , March 2004

Environmental Issues in Newly Industrializing Economies: A View from North America , George S. Tolley , June 2001

Environmental and Public Health Outcomes: An International and Historical Comparison , Don Coursey and Christopher Hartwell , August 2000

Valuing Environmental Resources in the Palos-Orland Region: A Report to the Palos-Orland Conservation Committee , Don Coursey and Douglas Noonan , July 2000

An Examination of the Effects of Impact Fees on Chicago's Suburbs , Brett M. Baden and Don L. Coursey , November 1999

An Examination of Compensation Mechanisms to Solve the NIMBY Problem , Don Coursey and Sangheon Kim , December 1997

The Locality of Waste Sites Within the City of Chicago: A Demographic, Social, and Economic Analysis , Brett Baden and Don Coursey , February 1997

What Makes Lay Intuition So Often Fundamentally at Odds with Expert Assessments of Environmental Risks? , Howard Margolis , November 1996

Employment and Training and the Urban Workforce , Patricia Carter, John Dilts, and Janel Highfill , February 1994

The Revealed Demand For a Public Good: Evidence from Endangered and Threatened Species , Don Coursey , January 1994

Government and Public Management

Direct Democracy and Redistribution , Christopher R. Berry , May 2009

The President and the Distribution of Federal Spending , Christopher R. Berry, Barry C. Burden, and William G. Howell , February 2009

Piling On: Overlapping Jurisdictions & the Fiscal Common-Pool , Christopher R. Berry , June 2008

New Public Management Comes to America , Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. , March 2008

The Unbundled Executive , Christopher R. Berry and Jacob E. Gersen , March 2008

The Fiscal Consequences of Electoral Institutions , Christopher R. Berry and Jacob E. Gersen , May 2007

Accountability and Local Elections: Rethinking Retrospective Voting , Christopher R. Berry and William G. Howell , January 2007

Matters of Life and Death: The Durability of Discretionary Programs 1970–2004 , Christopher R. Berry, Berry C. Burden, and William G. Howell , January 2007

School Consolidation and Inequality , Christopher R. Berry , January 2007

Growing Pains: The School Consolidation Movement and Student Outcomes , Christopher R. Berry and Martin West , January 2007

Multiple Principals and Outside Information in Bureaucratic Policy Making , Sean Gailmard , December 2002

Expertise, Subversion, and Bureaucratic Discretion , Sean Gailmard , December 2001

Public Management , Laurance E. Lynn , November 2001

Public Management , Laurance E. Lynn , November 2001

Social Services and the State: The Public Appropriation of Private Charity , Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. , May 2001

Economic Limits on "Rational" Democratic Redistribution , Casey B. Mulligan , March 2001

Producing Human Services: Why Do Agencies Collaborate? , Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. and Carolyn J. Hill , March 2001

Medical Privacy and Research , Norman M. Bradburn , March 2001

The Myth of the Bureaucratic Paradigm: What Traditional Public Administration Really Stood For , Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. , October 2000

International "Standards" and International Governance , Kenneth W. Abbott and Duncan Snidal , September 2000

Legislative Structure, Incentives, and Informational Lobbying , Morten Bennedsen and Sven Feldmann , December 1999

Studying Governance and Public Management: Challenges and Prospects , Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., Carolyn J. Heinrich, and Carolyn J. Hill , December 1999

An Examination of the Effects of Impact Fees on Chicago's Suburbs , Brett M. Baden and Don L. Coursey , November 1999

Means And Ends: A Comparative Study Of Empirical Methods For Investigating Governance And Performance , Carolyn J. Heinrich and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. , September 1999

Public Management in North America , Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. , June 1999

Governance Matters: The Influence of Program Structure and Management on Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Performance , Carolyn J. Heinrich and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. , April 1999

Requiring Bureaucracies to Perform: What Have We Learned From the U.S. Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA)? , Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. , September 1998

Persuasion Through the Purse: How Political Contributions Crowd Out Information , Morten Bennedsen and Sven Feldmann , March 1998

Public Management and Government Performance: A Consideration of Theory and Evidence , Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. , December 1997

Integrated Governance as a Reform Strategy in the Chicago Public Schools: A Report on System-Wide School Governance Reform , Kenneth K. Wong, Robert Dreeben, Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., Gail L. Sunderman , February 1997

Governing Public Schools: The Role of Formal Authority In School Improvement , Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. and Teresa R. Kowalczyk , June 1995

Leadership of A State Agency: An Analysis Using Game Theory , Barbara Koremenos and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. , April 1994

Public Management Research: The Triumph of Art Over Science , Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. , February 1993

Innovation and the Public Interest: Insights from the Private Sector , Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. , January 1993

Public Management: A Survey , Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. , October 1992

Policy Achievement as a Collective Good: A Strategic Perspective on Managing Social Programs , Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. , June 1992

Management Without Managers: The False Promise of Administrative Reform , Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. , May 1992

Health Policy

Do School Lunches Contribute to Childhood Obesity? , Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach , April 2008

The Health Care Safety Net and Crowd-Out of Private Health Insurance , Anthony T. Lo Sasso and Bruce D. Meyer , January 2006

Health Seeking Behavior in Northern KwaZulu-Natal , Anne Case, Alicia Menendez, and Cally Ardington , April 2005

Early Marriage and HIV Risks in Sub-Saharan Africa , Shelley Clark , March 2004

Dietary Intake and Food Security Among Migrant Farm Workers in Pennsylvania , Katherine Cason, Sergio Nieto-Montenegro, America Chavez-Martinez, Nan Ly, and Anastasia Snyder , January 2004

State Social Capital and Individual Health Status , Jennifer M. Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo , September 2003

Labor Market Costs of Illness: Prevalence Matters , Thomas DeLeire and Willard Manning , September 2003

An Assessment of Some Mechanisms Linking Economic Inequality and Infant Mortality , Susan E. Mayer and Ankur Sarin , December 2002

On the Importance of Full versus Partial Age-Adjustment in Ecological Studies of Social Determinants of Mortality , Jeffrey Milyo and Jennifer M. Mellor , October 2002

The Dual Effects of Intellectual Property Regulations: Within- and Between-Patent Competition in the US Pharmaceuticals Industry , Frank R. Lichtenberg and Tomas J. Philipson , October 2002

The Growth of Obesity and Technological Change: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination , Darius Lakdawalla and Tomas Philipson , April 2002

Individual Health Status and Minority Racial Concentration in U.S. States and Counties , Jennifer M. Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo , February 2002

Gender, Occupation Choice and the Risk of Death at Work , Thomas DeLeire and Helen Levy , September 2001

The Value of Pain Relief , Carina Furnée, Marius Kemler, and Gerard A. Pfann , April 2001

Economic Limits on "Rational" Democratic Redistribution , Casey B. Mulligan , March 2001

Medical Privacy and Research , Norman M. Bradburn , March 2001

The Wage and Employment Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act , Thomas DeLeire , July 2000

Changes in Wage Discrimination Against People With Disabilities: 1984-1993 , Thomas DeLeire , July 2000

Private Sex and Public Policy , Edward O. Laumann and Robert T. Michael , August 1999

The Long-Run Growth in Obesity as a Function of Technological Change , Tomas J. Philipson and Richard A. Posner , August 1999

Aging and the Growth of Long-Term Care , Darius Lakdawalla and Tomas Philipson , June 1999

Will the AIDS Epidemic be Self-Limiting? Evidence on the Responsiveness of the Demand for Condoms to the Prevalence of AIDS , Avner Ahituv, V. Joseph Hotz and Tomas Philipson , January 1994

Immigration

Emigration of Immigrants and Measures of Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence from Sweden , Per-Anders Edin, Robert J. LaLonde, and Olof Åslund , October 2000

International Political Economy

Globalization and Redistribution: The Missing Link , Lloyd Gruber , August 2005

Globalization in Theory: What's Missing from the Current Debate? , Lloyd Gruber , August 2005

Power Politics and the Institutionalization of International Relations , Lloyd Gruber , December 2003

Class Struggle: Some Diluting Effects of Inter-Generational Mobility , Raaj Sah and Philippe Penelle , January 2003

Emigration of Immigrants and Measures of Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence from Sweden , Per-Anders Edin, Robert J. LaLonde, and Olof Åslund , October 2000

Tax Policy and Market Structure , Gerard A. Pfann and Hans L. van Kranenburg , October 2000

International "Standards" and International Governance , Kenneth W. Abbott and Duncan Snidal , September 2000

Pivotal Voting and the Emperor's New Clothes , Howard Margolis , December 1999

Legislative Structure, Incentives, and Informational Lobbying , Morten Bennedsen and Sven Feldmann , December 1999

Rethinking the Rational Foundations of Supranational Governance: Lessons from the North American Free Trade Agreement , Lloyd Gruber , November 1999

Rationalist Approaches to International Cooperation: A Call for Theoretical Reorientation , Lloyd Gruber , October 1999

Power Politics and the Free Trade Bandwagon , Lloyd Gruber , October 1999

Interstate Cooperation and the Hidden Face of Power: The Case of European Money , Lloyd Gruber , October 1999

Power Politics and the Institutionalization of International Relations , Lloyd Gruber , October 1999

Holding Democracy Hostage: Central Bank Autonomy In The Transition From Authoritarian Rule , Delia M. Boylan , April 1998

Judgment and Decision-Making

A Note on ‘Neglect Defaulting’ , Howard Margolis , April 2008

On Shakespeare and Reasonable Doubt , Howard Margolis , April 2008

Cognition and Extended Rational Choice , Howard Margolis , September 2006

Are Economists Human? , Howard Margolis , February 2006

Wason, Monty Hall, and Adverse Defaults , Howard Margolis , December 2005

Cognitive Anomalies and Experimental Economics , Howard Margolis , March 2005

Social Capital and Contributions in a Public Goods Experiment , Lisa Anderson, Jennifer Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo , December 2004

Being There With Thomas Kuhn , Howard Margolis , November 2004

A Simple Solution for a Group Choosing a Restaurant , Tim Groseclose and Jeffrey Milyo , May 2004

Cognition and extended (nsnx) rational choice: some early results , Howard Margolis , May 2004

Monty Hall Again? , Howard Margolis , April 2004

Inequality, Group Cohesion, and Public Good Provision: An Experimental Analysis , Lisa R. Anderson, Jennifer M. Mellor, Jeffrey Milyo , March 2003

An Experimental Comparison of Collective Choice Procedures for Excludable Public Goods , Sean Gailmard and Thomas R. Palfrey , December 2002

Altruism and Darwinian Rationality , Howard Margolis , November 2002

Wason's Puzzle and Real Problems , Howard Margolis , October 2002

Two-Sided Learning, Labor Turnover, and Worker Displacement , Gerard A. Pfann and Daniel S. Hamermesh , October 2000

The Discovery of Discovery: What was Revolutionary about the Scientific Revolution , Howard Margolis , July 2000

Labor and Employment

Are Judges Sensitive to Economic Conditions? Evidence from UK Employment Tribunals , Ioana Marinescu , January 2008

Job Security Legislation and Job Duration: Evidence From the UK , Ioana Marinescu , January 2008

Food Stamps, Unemployment Insurance, and the Safety Net , Daniel G. Schroeder , May 2007

Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Unemployment Insurance from New York State , Bruce D. Meyer and Wallace K. C. Mok , January 2007

Unemployment Insurance Tax Burdens and Benefits: Funding Family Leave and Reforming the Payroll Tax , Patricia M. Anderson and Bruce D. Meyer , January 2006

Breadth vs. Depth : The Effect of Academic Specialization on Labor Market Outcomes , Ofer Malamud , November 2005

The Impact of Incarceration in State Prison on the Employment Prospects of Women , Rosa Cho and Robert LaLonde , August 2005

Labor Market Costs of Illness: Prevalence Matters , Thomas DeLeire and Willard Manning , September 2003

Social Capital and the Uncertainty Reduction of Self-Employment , Boris F. Blumberg and Gerard A. Pfann , April 2001

Producing Human Services: Why Do Agencies Collaborate? , Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. and Carolyn J. Hill , March 2001

Two-Sided Learning, Labor Turnover, and Worker Displacement , Gerard A. Pfann and Daniel S. Hamermesh , October 2000

The California Overtime Experiment: Labor Demand and the Impact of Overtime Regulation on Hours of Work , Jay Bhattacharya, Thomas DeLeire, and Thomas MaCurdy , October 2000

The Wage and Employment Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act , Thomas DeLeire , July 2000

Job Change and Job Stability Among Less-Skilled Young Workers , Harry J. Holzer, Robert J. LaLonde , December 1999

Governance Matters: The Influence of Program Structure and Management on Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Performance , Carolyn J. Heinrich and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. , April 1999

Male-Female Differences in the Low-Wage Labor Market , Jane Waldfogel and Susan E. Mayer , March 1999

Employment and Training and the Urban Workforce , Patricia Carter, John Dilts, and Janel Highfill , February 1994

Methods

Using Two-Sample Methods to Correct for Reporting Bias in Surveys , Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan , February 2009

QRE, NSNX and the Paradox of Voting , Howard Margolis , December 2007

Design Priorities and Disciplinary Perspectives: The Case of the US National Children's Study , Robert T. Michael and Colm O'Muircheartaigh , November 2006

Generalized Modeling Approaches to Risk Adjustment of Skewed Outcomes Data , Willard G. Manning, Anirban Basu, and John Mullahy , September 2003

Social Motivation, Self-Interest, and Social Change , , July 2000

External Treatment Effects and Program Implementation Bias , Tomas Philipson , December 1999

Studying Governance and Public Management: Why? How? , Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., Carolyn J. Heinrich, and Carolyn J. Hill , November 1999

Means And Ends: A Comparative Study Of Empirical Methods For Investigating Governance And Performance , Carolyn J. Heinrich and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. , September 1999

Some Results for the Comparative Statics of Steady-States of Higher-Order Discrete Dynamic Systems , Raaj Sah , September 1999

The Making and Analysis of Public Policy: A Perspective on the Role of Social Science , Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. , September 1999

A Place at the Table: Policy Analysis, Its Postpositive Critics, and the Future of Practice , Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. , January 1999

Designing Experimental Evaluations of Social Programs: The Case of the U.S. National JTPA Study , V. Joseph Hotz , May 1992

A Simulation Estimator for Dynamic Models of Discrete Choice , V. Joseph Hotz, Robert A. Miller, Seth Sanders, and Jeffrey Smith , May 1992

Conditional Choice Probabilities and the Estimation of Dynamic Models , V. Joseph Hotz and Robert A. Miller , January 1992

Poverty and Inequality

Five Decades of Consumption and Income Poverty , Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan , August 2009

The Under-Reporting of Transfers in Household Surveys: Its Nature and Consequences , Bruce D. Meyer, Wallace K. C. Mok, and James X. Sullivan , July 2009

Speech Patterns and Racial Wage Inequality , Jeffrey Grogger , February 2009

Using Two-Sample Methods to Correct for Reporting Bias in Surveys , Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan , February 2009

Reporting Bias in Studies of the Food Stamp Program , Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan , January 2008

Consumption and Income Poverty for those 65 and Over , Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan , September 2007

Further Results on Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption , Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan , August 2007

The U.S. Earned Income Tax Credit, its Effects, and Possible Reforms , Bruce D. Meyer , August 2007

Is Parental Love Colorblind? Allocation of Resources within Mixed Families , Marcos A. Rangel , June 2007

Food Stamps, Unemployment Insurance, and the Safety Net , Daniel G. Schroeder , May 2007

Wellbeing of Citizen Children of Immigrants in Relation to Food Stamps and WIC, 1998-2005 , Mariana Chilton , March 2007

Consumption Reponses to In-Kind Transfers: Evidence from the Introduction of the Food Stamp Program , Hilary W. Hoynes and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach , March 2007

The Community Reinvestment Act: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis , Christopher R. Berry and Sarah L. Lee , January 2007

Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Unemployment Insurance from New York State , Bruce D. Meyer and Wallace K. C. Mok , January 2007

A New Approach to Forecasting Food Stamp Caseloads , Jeffrey Grogger , November 2006

Female Offenders Use of Social Welfare Programs Before and After Jail and Prison: Does Prison Cause Welfare Dependency? , Kristin F. Butcher and Robert J. LaLonde , November 2006

Do food stamps cause obesity? Evidence from immigrant experience , Neeraj Kaushal , October 2006

Out of West Africa: Evidence on the Efficient Allocation of Resources within Farm Households , Marcos A. Rangel and Duncan Thomas , August 2006

Evidence of the Effectiveness of Child Support and Visitation: Examining Food Insecurity among Children with Nonresident Fathers , Steven Garasky and Susan D. Stewart , February 2006

Unemployment Insurance Tax Burdens and Benefits: Funding Family Leave and Reforming the Payroll Tax , Patricia M. Anderson and Bruce D. Meyer , January 2006

Three Decades of Consumption and Income Poverty , Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan , January 2006

The Impact of Incarceration in State Prison on the Employment Prospects of Women , Rosa Cho and Robert LaLonde , August 2005

Food Security Stability and Change Among Low-Income Urban Women , Andrew S. London and Ellen K. Scott , April 2005

Food Stamp and WIC Take-Up and the Relationship between Take-Up and TANF Recidivism Among Illinois TANF Leavers , Mairead Reidy, Meejung Chin, Duck-Hye Yang, and Robert M. Goerge , February 2005

The Material Well-Being of Single Mother Households in the 1980's and 1990's: What Can We Learn From Food Spending? , Thomas DeLeire and Helen Levy , September 2004

Should We Teach Old Dogs New Tricks? The Impact of Community College Retraining on Older Displaced Workers , Robert LaLonde , July 2004

The Relationship between Food Assistance, the Value of Food Acquired, and Household Food Security , Beth Osborne Daponte and Melvin Stephens, Jr. , March 2004

Ineligible Parents, Eligible Children: Food Stamps Receipt, Allotments and Food Insecurity among Children of Immigrants , Jennifer Van Hook and Kelly Stamper Balistreri , February 2004

Dietary Intake and Food Security Among Migrant Farm Workers in Pennsylvania , Katherine Cason, Sergio Nieto-Montenegro, America Chavez-Martinez, Nan Ly, and Anastasia Snyder , January 2004

The Interaction between Food Stamps and Welfare Programs: An Empirical Model of Program Dynamics in the Cleveland Metropolitan Area, 1992-2003 , Laura Leete and Neil Bania , January 2004

State Social Capital and Individual Health Status , Jennifer M. Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo , September 2003

Inequality, Group Cohesion, and Public Good Provision: An Experimental Analysis , Lisa R. Anderson, Jennifer M. Mellor, Jeffrey Milyo , March 2003

An Assessment of Some Mechanisms Linking Economic Inequality and Infant Mortality , Susan E. Mayer and Ankur Sarin , December 2002

How Economic Segregation Affects Children's Educational Attainment , Susan E. Mayer , July 2001

Has the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status Changed? , Susan E. Mayer and Leonard M. Lopoo , June 2001

How the Growth in Income Inequality Increased Economic Segregation , Susan E. Mayer , June 2001

Social Services and the State: The Public Appropriation of Private Charity , Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. , May 2001

Income Inequality, Economic Segregation and Children's Educational Attainment , Susan E. Mayer , November 2000

Measuring Poverty in the NLSY97 , Carolyn J. Hill and Robert T. Michael , November 2000

How Did the Increase in Economic Inequality between 1970 and 1990 Affect American Children's Educational Attainment? , Susan E. Mayer , February 2000

Job Change and Job Stability Among Less-Skilled Young Workers , Harry J. Holzer, Robert J. LaLonde , December 1999

African American Adolescent Girls in Impoverished Communities: Quality of Parenting and Adolescent Outcomes , Laura D. Pittman and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale , August 1999

Male-Female Differences in the Low-Wage Labor Market , Jane Waldfogel and Susan E. Mayer , March 1999

How Developmental Psychologists Think About Family Process and Child Development in Low Income Families , P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale , March 1999

Group Loyalty and the Taste for Redistribution , Erzo F.P. Luttmer , January 1999

Network Effects and Welfare Cultures , Marianne Bertrand, Erzo F.P. Luttmer, and Sendhil Mullainathan , January 1999

Does Age at Enrollment in First Grade Affect Children's Cognitive Test Scores , Susan E. Mayer and David Knutson , December 1997

Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenthood: Recent Evidence and Future Directions , Rebekah Levine Coley and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale , October 1997

The Costs and Consequences of Teenage Childbearing for Mothers , V. Joseph Hotz, Susan Williams McElroy, and Seth G. Sanders , March 1995

Environmental Racism in the City of Chicago: The History of EPA Hazardous Waste Sites in African-American Neighborhoods , Don Coursey, Andrew Geer, Christine Hagerbaumer, David Hammond, and Betsy Mendelsohn , October 1994

Regulating Child Care: The Effects of State Regulations on Child Care Demand and Its Cost , Joseph Hotz and M. Rebecca Kilbourn , October 1994

Employment and Training and the Urban Workforce , Patricia Carter, John Dilts, and Janel Highfill , February 1994

U.S. Education and Training Policy: A Re-evaluation of the Underlying Assumptions Behind the "New Consensus A Re-evaluation of the Underlying Assumptions Behind the "New Consensus" , James J. Heckman, Rebecca L. Roselius, and Jeffrey A. Smith , December 1993

Black Migration, Segregation, and the Spatial Concentration of Poverty , Douglas S. Massey and Andrew B. Gross , March 1993

Are There Economic Barriers to Visiting the Doctor? , Susan E. Mayer , May 1992

The Demand for Child Care and Child Care Costs: Should We Ignore Families with Non-Working Mothers , V. Joseph Hotz and M. Rebecca Kilburn , January 1992

Public Financial and Regulation

The Jackie (and Jill) Robinson Effect: Why Do Congresswomen Outperform Congressmen? , Sarah Anzia and Christopher R. Berry , September 2009

Using Loopholes to Reveal the Marginal Cost of Regulation: The Case of Fuel-Economy Standards , Soren T. Anderson and James M. Sallee , January 2009

The Incidence of Tax Credits for Hybrid Vehicles , James M. Sallee , December 2008

Piling On: Overlapping Jurisdictions & the Fiscal Common-Pool , Christopher R. Berry , June 2008

The Fiscal Consequences of Electoral Institutions , Christopher R. Berry and Jacob E. Gersen , May 2007

Accountability and Local Elections: Rethinking Retrospective Voting , Christopher R. Berry and William G. Howell , January 2007

School Finance Judgments and Spending on Education: A Review of the Evidence , Christopher R. Berry , January 2007

Matters of Life and Death: The Durability of Discretionary Programs 1970–2004 , Christopher R. Berry, Berry C. Burden, and William G. Howell , January 2007

The Community Reinvestment Act: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis , Christopher R. Berry and Sarah L. Lee , January 2007

Corruption Across Countries and Regions: Some Consequences of Local Osmosis , Raaj Sah , March 2006

Some Patterns of Market Shares of Brands Within and Across Product Categories , Rajeev Kohli and Raaj Sah , December 2005

Market Shares: Some Power Law Results and Observations , Raaj Sah and Rajeev Kohli , January 2004

An Experimental Comparison of Collective Choice Procedures for Excludable Public Goods , Sean Gailmard and Thomas R. Palfrey , December 2002

The Dual Effects of Intellectual Property Regulations: Within- and Between-Patent Competition in the US Pharmaceuticals Industry , Frank R. Lichtenberg and Tomas J. Philipson , October 2002

Can Government Collect Resources Without Hurting Investors: Taxation of Returns From Assets , Raaj Sah and Kenji Wada , November 2001

Wealth-Loss to Investors from the Taxation of Investment Returns , Raaj Sah , May 2001

Average Marginal Tax Rates Revisited: A Comment , Casey B. Mulligan and Justin G. Marion , February 2001

The California Overtime Experiment: Labor Demand and the Impact of Overtime Regulation on Hours of Work , Jay Bhattacharya, Thomas DeLeire, and Thomas MaCurdy , October 2000

The Empirical Frequency of a Pivotal Vote , Casey B. Mulligan and Charles G. Hunter , October 2000

International "Standards" and International Governance , Kenneth W. Abbott and Duncan Snidal , September 2000

The Wage and Employment Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act , Thomas DeLeire , July 2000

Changes in Wage Discrimination Against People With Disabilities: 1984-1993 , Thomas DeLeire , July 2000

Legislative Structure, Incentives, and Informational Lobbying , Morten Bennedsen and Sven Feldmann , December 1999

An Examination of the Effects of Impact Fees on Chicago's Suburbs , Brett M. Baden and Don L. Coursey , November 1999

Can Small Fluctuations in Investors' Subjective Preferences Induce Large Volatility in Equity Prices? , Rajnish Mehra and Raaj Sah , September 1999

The Effects of IRAs on Household Consumption and National Saving , Orazio P. Attanasio and Thomas DeLeire , June 1999

On Progressive Taxation, Income Redistribution and Political Representation , Philippe Penelle , May 1997

Economic Integration as a Partition Function Game , Massimo Morelli and Philippe Penelle , February 1997

Are Welfare Recipients Dictators in a Democracy? The Political Economy of the Negative Income Tax , Philippe Penelle , February 1997

Environmental Racism in the City of Chicago: The History of EPA Hazardous Waste Sites in African-American Neighborhoods , Don Coursey, Andrew Geer, Christine Hagerbaumer, David Hammond, and Betsy Mendelsohn , October 1994

The Future of Utility Regulation: Agenda for the 1990s , George S. Tolley, Robert Chirinko, Peter Griffes and Rick Geddes , June 1992

Buckle-Up or Slow-Down? New Estimates of Offsetting Behavior and Their Implications for Automobile Safety Regulation , Robert S. Chirinko and Edward P. Harper, Jr. , May 1992

Aggregate Shocks, Loan Losses, and Portfolio Concentrations: Lessons for Assessing Depository Institution Risk , Robert S. Chirinko and Gene D. Gill , May 1992

Social Policy

The Impact of Legalized Abortion on High School Graduation Through Selection and Composition , Stephan Whitaker , December 2008

The Community Reinvestment Act: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis , Christopher R. Berry and Sarah L. Lee , January 2007

Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Unemployment Insurance from New York State , Bruce D. Meyer and Wallace K. C. Mok , January 2007

Vocational Training versus General Education: Evidence from an Educational Reform in Romania , Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches , November 2005

Early Marriage and HIV Risks in Sub-Saharan Africa , Shelley Clark , March 2004

State Social Capital and Individual Health Status , Jennifer M. Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo , September 2003

Ready to Enter: What Research Tells Policymakers About Strategies to Promote Social and Emotional School Readiness Among Three- and Four-Year-Olds , C. Cybele Raver and Jane Knitzer , July 2002

Social Services and the State: The Public Appropriation of Private Charity , Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. , May 2001

Downsizing , Gerard A. Pfann , April 2001

Social Capital and the Uncertainty Reduction of Self-Employment , Boris F. Blumberg and Gerard A. Pfann , April 2001

Producing Human Services: Why Do Agencies Collaborate? , Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. and Carolyn J. Hill , March 2001

The Returns to Community College Schooling for Displaced Workers , Louis S. Jacobson, Robert J. LaLonde, and Daniel G. Sullivan , February 2001

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